As a native Chernian, my island was relatively unknown until the ‘nekzarik’. Let me paint you a picture:

The island was poor, but as it was poor there was no one to compare to. Everyone was in and around a similar level of wealth, so we suffered and celebrated together. The cities were filled with what we needed but not much entertainment, so as a child the main source of exploration was of the v...

One way you could conceptualise your personality is an arm wrestle. The two challengers are mini personalities within yourself, and the combination of the two manifests itself as your personality.

The first challenger is the instinctual element. This part of you requires satisfaction of your animalistic desires. Aggression, sex, eating, anything of instant gratification. All it wants to do is co...

If the calendar were to read “today is the day you die”, how would you feel? Would you panic or would you be okay? Why would someone panic, there’s nothing they can do about it now? This is why:

They panic because they know they haven’t done everything they should have been doing, and now they’re at the end of their run they’re worried they’ve wasted their life. They have been putting things off...

Making it from our base in the dam to the town of Elektrozad was a weekly occurrence. Doing it more frequently would represent too high a risk, but too infrequently would represent the equal but opposite risk of starvation. The risks were tenfold; infection, bandit gangs, ghillie snipers and zombies. Instead of banding together, as you would expect of a country where the group is paramount, it had...